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Originally Posted by tankdriver
It ridiculous to call a lull to catch your breath success in war. They will never accept perpetual American presence. You get a quiet week, month, or even a year, it's not going to last.
They will or they won't. Being the crutch, and a despised one at that, will only inevitably drag you down with them.
If you want to help them, get them on their feet, and do it as fast as possible so you can save the lives of your troops and save everyone tens of billions of dollars you can use to help yourselves, then invite more people to the party.
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A lull to catch your breath is necessary for them to get their act together. I don't think I would call it a success on the whole.
But if you remove the crutch too soon before the leg has a chance to heal, you only end up breaking the leg further.
The question is whether we are not going as fast as possible because of the insurgents or whether we don't have the people to do the jobs. IF we need companies that we don't have, by all means, let them in. If we already have the companies to do the job, why should we let them in?